Erosion Control & Stormwater Management

Waterways are dynamic systems that are subjected to continual change (such as flooding events).

The functional design of natural riparian corridors play an important role in the mitigation of floods, filtering land based contaminants, water quality and providing habitat for terrestrial and aquatic vertebrate. The responsible management of stormwater catchment runoff and the networks that enter these waterways is an important function that regulators and the community are influencing through new design (WSUDs) and education.

It is also common that gullies and low lying areas that facilitate these catchment flows, pass through areas also managed for nature conservation purposes. Implementing sustainable engineering solutions in these natural areas can have constraints. These projects typically require a higher level of care and logistics planning and environmental permits in order to successfully integrate hardscaping works with the surrounding landscape.